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July 7, 2009

G83: Red Sox 5, Athletics 2

Eveland faced the Red Sox back on April 14 in Oakland. 4.2-8-5-3-2, 108. The A's won 6-5 in 12 innings. (That was a horrible night; Dice went one inning and Lopez blew the game in the 12th.)

Eveland has not started a game since May 1 (log). His last major league appearance was in relief on May 3, when he faced four batters and got none of them out. Two days later, he was optioned to Sacramento (AAA), where he posted a 3.49 ERA in 12 starts. He threw 89 pitches on Friday (5-5-1-5-4) and will be working on three days rest.

Beckett, who has allowed two or fewer runs in seven of his last nine starts, has not faced the A's this season.

BDD has been taking potshots at various players since at least 2002. Many observers feel the majority of its snide comments were/are directed at players with darker skin. He's still taking shots at Pedro -- and the anti-Manny headlines will likely continue well into 2035. In May, BDD said Ortiz "certainly seems" to be cooked. the following month, Tiz threw up a .320 average and a 1.062 OPS.

There are witty headlines, but it's usually another extension of the negativity of the Boston media. There are nothing but smiles when the Red Sox have won 10 in a row, but after a bad loss or two, look out.

You would think that, after 2004 and 2007, that industry would be on its last legs, gasping for another breath, but there remains a strong market for people who want to whine constantly, even in the fact of reality, about how shitty the Red Sox are doing.

I can see Beckett feasting on the A's tonight. Last night Smoltz and Saito were leaving breaking balls up all night and Bard and Ramirez had no problem throwing the cheese by them. Becks should establish the fastball and blow em away tonight.

I was gonna say, I came across that Dirt Dogs site way back in 03 or 04, when I consider myself highly uneducated in baseball and highly susceptible to the black hole of shit that redsock mentioned abouve. (lol - what a canadian typo to make, i'm not going to bother correcting that, that's just funny to me)

Anyway I thought that site was crass and moronic way back then and wrote it off in the search for enlightened red sox blogs. Haven't really been back since, but I have seen a couple things on it as a result of it being linked to from the Globe's Extra Bases Blog and man - it's brutal!

Cabin Mirror, interviewed on the MLB Home Plate channel on SIRIUS XM Radio, on the new Yankee Stadium:

"I'm not a big fan of it. Nothing pops there, nothing pops. The old stadium, you walked in, you knew this was where Mantle played and DiMaggio. It was just that old school. I got booed a lot louder. They didn't boo me as loud here. I like to get booed. They were too nice to me ..."

Globe says Mrs. FY "went into labor yesterday (she is seven weeks from her due date) and was hospitalized. Doctors were able to stop the labor and stabilize her. She is currently resting at the hospital."

(Tito: "When I was playing, I missed one of my kid’s births and I’m still paying for it 22 years later. ... I had to wait until [the next day, an off-day]".)

If you scroll up so that the two last lines are below the page break, that looks like a pretty good lineup. Lowrie and Lowell should come back soon.(Not that I expect them to be great. But a bit above average offense from Lowell and the ability to field the position from Lowrie would be nice).

I think much of the team was preoccupied last night with the sudden absence of FY and the condition of Kelli. Most of the red Sox players are fathers and all probably respect the helpless terror pregnancy complications bring--that feeling that there is fuck all you can do to influence the course of events. Hopefully, with the situation stabilized they'll be more focused on the national pastime. My heart goes out to both Kelli and Dustin and I hope the little one stays put for a few more weeks.

Conformer, we have this in common, I always have to know how things are pronounced when I read. I often ask people online how they pronounce their names. No one else seems to, but I can't read unless I know!

Hooray for leads!Also glad to hear FYette is apparently out of the woods. That's scary. My sister's twin boys were born about 8 weeks early, and this was 28 years ago. Very scary. 1 was 1 lb, 6 oz. the other was 2 lb, 2 oz at birth. 6 weeks in the IC Nursery. But they're fine now except for a very small speech issue with one of them.

SC just showed Tek's baserunning booboo, and also another by the Brewer's Cameron. He ran into a batted ball between 2nd and 3rd. And not a hard rip he couldn't move away from. A lazy bounder that he just ran into.Oh the little things.